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It r CIRCULATION THE WEATHER t R "today " and Wedne. day, 'normal temp heavy southerly wind; Max-. Temp. Mob. 55, Mia. 40, river 8 ft. rain 2.10 in., south wiad. Distribution Average Nov. '33 7622 Net paid, daily, Snday,7232 EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR OF CHACO WAR APPEARS IMMINENT DeatffsQuUi . Writes 'Finis? 4 Yi - - FOUNDED J851 ' ' ... ' , . ' . " 'aBa SMSMSBDa:aB,BBBaraSteeMaflSJSMSBWMSisSSaWaWaBB sssss-s oam, uregon, mesaay Morning, December 19, 1933 No. 229 iniinn i inrnnr i i , . , . '' LIQUOR LICEfJSE L BY C0UNC1LMEN j . . . . v THREEVESSELS LIB case is ifiUEO I. r Fee Schedule: Altered From Proposal ; Propose -: to . Segregate Funds, . WaterPlant Condemnation Bill Passes First, and Second Readings onarently satisfied . that the gusiy wind outside the council chamber wails was all Salem reeded, the city's aldermen, nine of them present, last night rnshed hurriedly but serenely through a Ftack of business and adjourned tg meet January 2, since the first Monday of next montn comes on New Year'a day. The major ordinance business authorization of condemnation proceedings to Becure the local vater cystem, and enactment of a nev.- beer and wine licensing schedule went through first and ? ocond readings without comment and was referred, the former to the utilities and the latter to the license committees. The wine and beer ordinance as introduced embodied but two changes from the tentative meas ure announced Saturday: License fws were reduced $5 under three heads. Licenses for package t lores selling only beer would be $10. package stores selling beer and wine up to 14 per cent alco holic content $20 and retail beer houses 525. Would Segregate Liquor Tax Funds All levenues from liquor licen ces and taxes, under an ordin ance introduced by Alderman F. K. Needham, would be segregated in a special fund to pay bond and varrant principal and interest. But one bid was submitted for purchase of the $60,000 bond is- rue to refund an issue maturing January 1, 1934, and that was ac cepted. Ladd & Bush -offered to buy the bonds for $57,000, or at 05, the minimum at which the city can sell them. To make up the $3000 differ ence between the income from Fale of the new issue and neces sary payments on the maturing one, the council approved transfer of $730 each from the street re pair and fire department tax fund3. The remaining $1500 will be available since that amount was appropriated for 1934 In ex cess of the city's needs for pay ments on other bond obligations. Plea of Oregon Motor Stages to discontinue a portion of its loop bus route on the State street line, because of insufficient business. was referred to the utilities com mittee. The company wants to route the State street busses from State on 21st to Mill, to 24th, to Trade, to 25th and back to State. Marion Lake Claim May be Thrown Oat Unless the city pays examina tion fees on its two applications for water and power rights on Marion lake, filed in 1923, within 30 days the applications will be thrown out, the council was no tified by C. E. Stricklin, state en gineer. The utilities committee also was handed this matter. Since the state fair manage ment has not agreed to share in cost of water for fire protection at the state fairgrounds, the council on Alderman O. A. 01- f o n s recommendation ordered discontinuance of four hydrants there after January 1, leaving six in service. Cost of building a dike and rates across Minto slough, aimed at eliminating malodorous condi tions, arising there, would cost $1562. 53 in a report from City Lngineer Rogers filed July 17 and delayed somewhere until last night. Alderman E. A. Dane has asked for the estimate. To enable the school board. to build a tunnel nnder the railroad tracks between ' Parrish Junior high school and Olinger field, for use of pupils, the council author ized the city attorney tor negoti ate with the Southern Pacific (Turn to page 2, coL 5) BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS 5 SHOPPmQMsrs TO CHRISTMAS Agreement upon a truce which may aguay and Bolivia was announced waged over 100,000 square miles of jungle (show n in map), cotit more than 100,000 dead and wound ed, a higher percentage of casualties than was suffered by the A. E. P. in the World war. Threats of intervention made at the Pan-American confci ence recently at Montevideo have played some part in bringing about peace overtures. General Hans Kundt, German military genius, has headed the Bo livian forces recently but failed to achieve much headway in jungle warfare. WEE BABY K AFTEflHELD OEflD 20-0unce Girl Shrouded in Paper and Abandoned, But Found Alive FINDLAY, O., Dec. IS (JP) A baby girl, so tiny that at birth the doctor thought her dead, lies con tentedly in a little basket beside a coal stove in her parents' home here. Her mother's wedding ring slips easily over her hand to form a bracelet. The girl was born Saturday night to Mr..and Mrs. Charles Car men. Premature by four months and weighing only 20 ounces, she gave no apparent signs of life, the father said, and the doctor wrap ped her in a newspaper and placed her on the kitchen table. It was two hours later that Carmen, hearing a noise in the kitchen, investigated. "I thought the noise was the cat and I went out to put the ani mal out," Carmen said. "It was the baby crying." Fifteen drops of a prepared milk every 30 minutes is tne baby's diet. At first she was fed with a medicine dropper, but now grandmother Finerd uses a dou s nursing bottle and calls her "My Doll Baby." That's the child's only name so far.- Wlth blond hair and dark blue eyes, the baby is 14 inches long from head to toe. Her nead is inches in circumference no big ger than a tennis ball and ZJA Inches long. Her fingers are only a half inch long and almost as thin as match sticks. She could stand some fat here and there. Each parentis 19 years . oia. Neither is unusually Email, ine Doll's great grandfather, John Bartshlett, however, weighed only two pounds at birth. CWA WORKER DIES SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18. (JP) .Ome a widely known San Fran cisco attorney, Peter Lund, 55, dropped dead on a civil works pick-and-shovel jod nere loaay. Flax Outlook State Loss is Neglible Coincident with release of the 1932-1933 audit of the state flax plants operations, wimam nan tig, secretary of the state board of control, announcea yesieraay that the state was willing to con tract with farmers in ivs ior 2000 acres of flax, at a price or $22.50 a ton. The Increase acre age marks a 160 per cent larger acreage than In ld3 wnen ouy 750 acres of-flax were coniraciea for by the state at a price of $20 a ton. . The audit, prepared by tne sec retary of state's offices, shows the 1932-1933 flax operations greauy reduced in roltme from previous years but subject to a much smaller loss than ormerly. The net loss for the perioa, alter tak ing full depreciation of ii,zuw was only $32Z. This compares favorably with years wnen losses as high as $50,000 were sustain ed. The figures on last year, how ever, do not Include a reserve for doubtful accounts receivauxe w talllnr 120.030. Since Jane 30, 1933. a substantial amount of these have been collected bnt a result In nego tiations ending the last night. This is the first "official war since 1918. and has been Armistice in Chaco War is Agreed Upon MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 18 Bo livia accepted a proposal for a truce in the Gsan Chaco border warfare with Paraguay, it was au thoritatively learned tonight. Details will be arranged at a meeting of representatives of the two countries tomorrow. A truce beginning at midnight tomorrow and lasting until midnight, Dec. 31 is expected to be agreed upon. In that period, it was hoped, the belligerents will be able to agree upon a means whereby the truce may be prolonged into an armistice. If the armistice is arranged, President Ayala of Paraguay said he intended to insist on the broadest guarantees against a re newal of hostilities at any time In the future. First Liquor Still is Seized Since Repeal Forty-five gallons of alleged Christmas whiskey of the moon shine variety went off the mar ket yesterday when "revenooers" confiscated their first still in Mar ion county since repeal of nation al prohibition. Leo E. Gier was arrested by federal agents, Sheriff A. C. Burk and his deputies on a charge of operating a still in violation of federal statutes at box 103, route five. The still, the officers said, was equipped with all accessories, including steam apparatus, and had a capacity of 150 gallons. TEACHER MISSING COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Dec. 18. UP) Missing since she failed to return from a bridge . party, Miss Constance Dahlstrom, 20, a school teacher, was sought by po lice tonight. Improves; sixeable proportion are still con sidered uncertain as to ultimate payment. The. audit sets the processing expense on tach ton of flax han dled at $15.(13. The average price received during the year for the products of a ton of flax totalled $34.14. This left a margin of $18.31 available a ton for the grower. The auditor points out either that a substantially higher selling price must be received in 1933-34 or else manufacturing costs must be materially reduced to permit the state to pay $22.50 for its flax. The report shows that the state has sustained a total- loss of $390,630 in its flax operations since they began more than a de cade ago. This deficit is computed by subtracting the depreciated value of all assets, including cash and working inventories, from the state's total investment and other liabilities. Included in the liabili ties, however, is an item of 144,- 000 accrued interest owed on large loans made by tne state. (Turn to case 2. coL 4 Ml. ARGENT X TifiJi&jS' Gran Chaco war between, Par ARE BEING RUSHED Extension o) Time For Use Of CWA Funds Believed Only Hindrance Now Lacking only tho final approval from Washington, plans for the remodeling of the courthouse here are being drawn as " completely and rapidly as possible, according to J. N. Chambers, Marion county relief chairman who, with mem bers of the county" court spent Monday afternoon in Portland in terviewing officials there. Advices from Raymond Wilcox, head of the state relief organiza tion, late last week were that the funds would be forthcoming from the CWA if arrangements could be made for such moneys to be allotted for work next summer following the cessation of the present program. Chambers Baid last night that assurances had been given that an additional period of time and allotment of new funds were to be granted upon the close of the present civil works dispensation Work on the courthouse would be begun about March 1, 1934, and (Turn to page 2, col. 6) E Earl Roy Allphln, whom state police said was the kingpin of the trio that stole 3600 pounds of seed onions from a Japanese farmer near Woodburn last sum mer, pleaded guilty in Woodburn justice court yesterday afternoon and was brought to the county jail here to begin serving a six months' sentence. Eight hundred pounds of onions recovered by po lice and held for evidence were returned to the farmer. Allphin's arrest followed a long search. The license number of his car, by which he was finally recognized by state officers at Os wego Sunday, had been on police bulletins for several months. When arrested,he was found to have disguised himself by growing a moustache. He had been living at Mllwaukie. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ames, said to have worked under Allphln, were arrested some time ago and have since served 30-day jail sen tences for their part in the theft, police said. Allphln served 27 days In jail at Oregon City in 1930 tor chick en theft. Kiddle Here to Hold Office as State Governor Fred E. Kiddle, president of the state senate, arrived at the capltol from Island City Monday morning to serve as chief execu tive of the state during the ab sence of Governor Meier, who is spending the Christmas holidays with his daughters in San Fran cisco. ? Kiddle's first official act was that of signing a number of not- Jarlal commissions. Governor Meier I was expected to return to baiem COURTHOUSE PLANS Mm THIEF COMES COUNTY BAST E "early in January. . Losmar Rigs up Temporary Steering Gear, Limps Toward Columbia Rain Still Pours Down Northwest, - Streams At Flood Stage in PORTLANDi Ore., Dec. 18. UP) After losin.; her deck load and steering gear in a heavy -wlnd-lashed sea off Yaquina head the intercoastal freighter Losmar, the third steamer to meet distress in one of the vorst storms the Ore gon coastline has experienced in years, was reported tonight to be proceeding under her own power to Astoria. L The steamer had rigged up temporary steering gear, and was struggling slowly northward to ward the mouth of the Columbia river as the Intensity of the storm was Increasing again. Marshfield, to the south of Yaquina head, re ported that - southeast gale had reached 55 miles an hour, and was increasing. Columbia -river bar pilots at Astoria later received a report from the cripple 1 Losmar that she was 35 miles south of the Columbia river. The association was instructed to be ready to put a pilot aboard the vessel off the river at daybreak. The coast guard here reported that the cutter Chelan is on Its way to the assistance of the Los mar, but indications were she would makt- the Columbia river all right without help. SEATTLE, Dec. 18 UP) Com pleting temporary repairs to her steering gear and escorted by the coast guard cutter Chelan, the disabled freighter Losmar was making tonight toward the mouth of the Columbia river off the Ore gon coast, but another vessel was aground in the Seattle harbor. The! Admiral Cole, Pacific steamship passenger boat and freighter, outbound for California ports, went ashore on mud flats at the entrance to the west water way. It was in no danger, and will be refloated at the next high tide at 6 a.m. tomorrow or sooner. officials said. Driving rain and gales on land and sea continued to take a wide toll over the Pacific northwest, In In a severe two-day winter storm, with rivers still running high or over their banks, and with ship ping hampered and numerous slides reported. The coast guard also reported that the cutter Red Wing will at- tempt to pull off the steamer Charles L. Wheeler Jr., aground (Turn to page 2, col. 7) E MARSEILLES, France, Dec. 18. (Jp) Four Frenchmen who were tossed about for a day and a night in a seaplane forced down upon the Btormy Mediterranean were rescued early today. The steamer Saint Marguerite, one of the vessels which respond ed to S O S messages sent by the plane's wireless, sighted the men shortly after daybreak when a heavy snowstorm ended. Chilled and hungry after their nerve-wracking experience, the rescueod men wera taken by the Saint Marguerite as it Bteamed for Bizerta, Africa. The seaplane was abandoned. An ice covered motor forced the craft down as it was flying irom Marseilles to Algiers. It belonged to a commercial passenger line. Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 18 UP) Gus Kallio, 160, of Columbus, Ohio, defeated Harry Elliott, 158, of Eugene, two falls out of three, in the main event on tonight's wresUing card here. Kallio won the first fall in 19 minutes with a self strangle hold. Elliott tbok the second in 5 min utes with a flying body scissors. The final fall went to Kallio with another self strangle hold in 18 minutes. Herb Parks, 160, Vancouver, B. C, won the semi-windup from Logger Heizert, 161, St. Helens, on a foul after each had taken a fall. Mickey McGuiro, 157, Salem, defeated Klem Kusek, 159, Taco- ma, two falls out of three. Don Sugai, 149, took the open er from Jack Stewart, 151, Se attle, getting one fall. SEATTLE; Dec. 18 UP) Gnst Johnson, 160, Rockford, " 111., slammed Bulldog Jackson, 158, Klamath Falls, Ore., to the mat In the third round for a fall to night and 'Jackson was enable to continue the bout. - 1 Napoleon StradiottI, 160, Italy, took two out of three falls to win from George (Wildcat) Pete, SOS SIS FOUR FROM SEA GRAV 162, Eugene, Ore. t At top, Robert W. Chambers, 8, internationally famous author and artist who died in New York Saturday, following an op eration for an intestinal ail ment. He began his career as a pointer but soon acquired fame as a novelist, particularly as a writer of thrilling historical fic tion. Louis Joseph Vance, shown below, was burned to death the same day In his apart ment, apparently as the result of falling asleep with a lighted cigarette. Vance, who was 54, was a writer of popular novels, many of them "best sellers." International Illustrated News photo. E IS FILED HOnan in AlhflnV Afifilrifint: J 1 Numerous Crashes Are In Weekend List Charged with drunken driving, H. HoKan. 947 Mill street, was apprehended by state police near VJL - V r - .- 4 " '1 U ' 'it- 1 ; Jj x DRUNKEN DRIVING Sunnysido Sunday night after he!ing 190 men were grading unim had fled from Albany where his car crashed into a service station. With J. M. Baldwin, 330 Union street, who was charged with be ing drunk on a public highway, Hogan was returned to Albany yesterday by the Linn county sheriff. State police here said Hogan's car knocked down a pole on the service station property. Mrs. W. E. Jewell of Indepen- dence, suffered severe shock when a car driven by her husband col lided with one operated by John 3. Friesen, 1364 Skinner street, at Front and Commercial yester day, Mr. Jewell reported. Pete Graber, 1255 Broadway, was arrested by city police Sun day on a charge of failing to give right of way. Graber s car was involved in a collision with an other car driven by A. M. Lock- ard, 241 South 16th, at Court and Liberty. A series of minor accidents were reported to police over the week end involving the following: W. E. Raffety, 1462 North Commercial, and A. W. Llghtfoot, ! at Capitol and Fairgrounds; Wal ter W. Stores, route nine, and Mr. (Turn to page 2, col. 3) Ex-Service Men Complain H'rejerence Complaints that ex-service men are not being given preference, as they are held entitled to be, in the national re-employment ser vice, CWA and PWA acts were brought directly before Capital Post No. 9, American Legion, last night when a resolution passed by the Bend, Redmond and Frlne- vllle posts was read. The matter was passed on to the post execu tive committee. The resolution charges "that there is not an ex-service man or woman in a paid executive posi tion In any of the various man agerial departments in this state under said acts; that these posi tions pay very good salaries; that thev are filled by those not in want and need as many of our ex service men and women are; that many so employed are unfriendly to the. ex-service men and women and were mere children when the great World war was fought... The resolution requests the Le gion state commander . to call a state executive committee meeting to consider the resolution' and seek through the Influence of United States Senator Steiwer, Big Blow to be Increased "Today, Forecast; Many : - Power Poles Down Service Disrupted in Many Parts of Valley; Few Roads Blockaded . Scarcely giving public agencies time, to Tick P following the 37 mile an hour wind and rain storm that buffeted Salem ;d vicinity all day Sunday, a second gale of equal intensity bore down in this region last night again menacing power service and highway traf fic and sending the smaller streams to higher levels. Increasing southerly winds coastward and continued rains were predicted by the TJn'ted States weather bureau. At the Salem airport weather station last night the recorded peak wind velocity was 37 miles an hour but it was estimated the Intermittent gusts reached up wards to at least 42 miles an hour. Damage Extensive In Rural Districts Only darkened street lights on many corners and running gut ters in Salem remained tokens (Turn to page 2, col. 1) OUT 10 CM JOBS 42 to Report Today; Salem Has 484 Employed Now; New Work Awaits While civil works crews toiled on in the city yesterday disre garding the heavy rain, the na tional re-employment agency pre pared to notify 136 more men to report on four newly approved projects throughout the county, Manager E. T. Barnes announced. Today 42 men have orders to start to work on the library square project at Woodburn. Three projects will begin Wednes day: 42 men clearing and grub bing at Hopmere. 27 Improving Salem airport road, and 25 build ing fire guards and" clearing in Silver Fall9 park. Yesterday approximately 484 men were working on CWA pro- jects in Salem. Crews aggregat proved streets In north baiem ana digging ditches fo.- a relief sani tary sewer in the vicinity of 16th and Mill streets. Another 185 to 190 were wielding picks and shovels at Leslie and Olinger fields and Kay park, while nin were laying forms for the new concrete floor in the central fire station. Pouring of concrete will get j under way Friday at the fire sta- tlon, Building Inspector Bushnell, who is supervising the Job, stat ed. The crew will then be in creased to 11 men. Hansen-Lilje-quist received the contract to sup ply 14,453 pounds of reinforcing steel needed for the project. Bids are being called for by Bushnell to furnish 71 yards of gravel and 40 yards of sand while the civil works board Is expected shortly to ask bids for 132 barrels of ce ment. SILK STRIKE ENDS PAWTUCKET, R. I., Dec. 18. UP) A strike of 8500 workers in 14 Pawtucket and Central Falls silk and rayon mills ended today after more than nine weeks' dur ation, all mills resumed opera tion. is lot uiven Congressman Charles H. Martin and James W. Mott, and Gover nor Julius L. Meier to obtain the ouster of "some of these unjust appointments." Speaker for the meeting was Acting Governor Fred Kiddle, who discussed Legion affairs. The post accepted an invitation to sponsor a radio broadcast over KOAG at Corvallls January 25. The Marion county 40 et 8 will send the Salem Legion auxiliary trio to sing and Mayor Douglas McKay, who will discuss Amer icanism, to talk on a broadcast over that station December 28. Vice-commander King S. Bart- lett, presiding, announced the committee on . promotion of the concert the Eugene,' Gleemen are to give here soon In benefit to the hoy scouts: Brigadier-General Thomas RIlea, C. W, and King 8. BarUett, Glenn Seeley, F. How ard Zinser, Leslie Wadsworth, Leon Brown, and Arthur Johnson. Membership in the post for 1934 now totals 219, it was re ported. Carl Gabrielson's 40 et 8 membership team is leading with 26 memberships obtained. HH CALLED Dallas Company Asks Order Preventing Enforcement Of Code Provisions Made Permanent Government Attorneys Citi Objections to Claim of Gerlinger That 2 -Shift Operation is Necessary PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 18 (JPl Claiming that it would be de prived of its property if certain provisions of the national lumber code were enforced, the Willam ette Valley Lumber company of Dallas today asked that a tempor ary restraining order preventing the West Coast Lumbermen's as sociation, administrative agency of the code, from enforcing those provisions be made, permanent. The request was made at the opening of a hearing in federal court here of the plaintiff's mo tion for continuance of the re straining order and the defense motion that the order be dissolv ed. A crowd that packed the courtroom listened interestedly as the impressive array of attorneys surrounding the counsel table sr gued their points. The company claimed that the code as administered by the WJest Coast Lumbermen's association is discriminatory and so oppressive it would deprive the company of its property if enforced. The ques tion of the constitutionality of the NRA or of the lumber code was not raised, nor was the power of the lumber authority to restrict production questioned But the complaint sets forth that the par ticular method used discriminates against the company. The suit was carried to federal court after the Dallas company had appealed without avail to the West Coast Lumbermen's associa tion, to the lumber code authority and to the national recovery ad ministration. Dallas Firm First I To Defy Code, Avers Hammond E. Chaffetz, special assistant to the attorney-general, Washington, D. C, directing the case for the defense, declared that the Dallas company is the first lumber company to "operate in de fiance with the lumber code." The suit is the second in the entire country to be brought against operation of NRA codes. Under provisions of the lumber code as enforced in the northwest region, every mill is limited to a one-shift operation, with an allot ment of 120 hours a month or 30 hours a week. The Dallas mill (Turn to page 2, col. 5) World News at a Glance (By the Associated Press) Domestic t WASHINGTON Acting - Secre tary Morgenthau says government gold buying has induced a five and one-half per cent rise In com modity prices. Washington House ways and means committee receives propos als to increase. Income tax rates and abolish all federal excise and processing levies. CHICAGO Bankers and law yers say Samuel insun neipea choose receiver and creditors who pushed utilities empire Into hank- ruptcy. WASHINGTON Morgaataaa announces . coast guaras run forces to fight rum smuggling. CHARLESTON Lindberghs bring seaplane down In Charles ton navy yard for "a quiet over night visit." NASHVILLE Gov. McCallster offers $1000 reward for capture of lynchers of negro. Foreign: PARIS French military leas ers decide to oppose German de -mands for arms equality. STOKE, Eng. Foreign Secre tary Sir John Simon said a desire. to rearm-was due to fear among nations who should be neighbors. PARIS Finance Minister Georges Bonnet warned that France fs "sliding toward infla tion" unless budget is balanced. . ROME Germany's willingness to attend a four power arms meet ing reported expressed to Under Secretary Fulvlo Suvich during re cent visit to Berlin. DUBLIN Police and soldiers patrolled the area tear Weatpori barracks .where General Eoitt O'Duffy, united Ireland party, was, held. v MONTEVIDEO Paraguay pro posed . at the pan-American con7 ference that an armistice be eiV fected In her long dispute wiUff Bolivia over the Gran Chaco. ! - ------ i -r f